Sentences with phrase «ice crust»

In February — just three months after Britney Schmidt proposed the possibility of subglacial lakes within Europa's thick ice crust — Russian scientists announced that they had drilled through the ice to reach Vostok.

High - resolution image of Europa's fractured ice crust, taken by the Galileo probe.

Europa, meanwhile, appears to be entirely covered by an ocean, sandwiched between a rocky core and a thin ice crust.

Places have already been spotted on Europa where fresh ice crust is being born, but the latest research is the first to pinpoint where it might be going to die.

The image on the right is a false - color composite version combining violet, green and infrared images to enhance color differences in the predominantly water - ice crust of Europa.

In an evolving story based on mankind's inherent need to explore, protect and survive; players search deeper into Europa's ice crusted core and transcend the line between man and machine.

«Drawn by the gravitational field of the sun, bits of cosmic ice vaporize and explode... Ice crystals descend on the planets, forming ice crusts and in the case of the Earth rain.

They insist that dynamic features like Conamara Chaos could form even in a thick ice crust.

Later in the mission Cassini found tentative evidence for an aqueous ocean beneath Titan's water - ice crust, too.

This could enable them to learn more about its ice crust, work out the chemistry of the ocean and the rocks beneath, and perhaps pick up the music of active geysers on the surface and volcanoes erupting on the sea...

One explanation is that the long fractures in the ice crust experience more stress as gravitational tidal forces push and pull on the moon and so open vents at larger distances from Jupiter.

The best explanation is that it was forced under the ice crust, in a «subsumption» zone similar to Earth's subduction zones where rocky crust slides beneath rocky crust.

Although past detailed mapping and measurements of impact craters on Jupiter's large icy moons suggested that the thickness of Europa's ice crust ranges from around 12 miles (20 km) to 16 miles (25 km) thick, researchers hope that refined methods using combined measurements of gravity and the magnetic field made from orbit can better determine the ice crust's thickness as well as its salinity.

Under its ice crust, estimated to be 10 km thick, is an ocean of liquid water of over 100 km deep.

Some of the icy moons around Saturn and Jupiter have oceans below the ice crust.

New high - resolution image of Pluto from New Horizons, showing jumbled blocks in the water - ice crust, which border the smooth nitrogen - ice plains.

Last year, a study of its gravitational field hinted at a 10 - kilometer - thick regional ocean around the south pole lying under an ice crust some 30 to 40 kilometers deep.